Meaning of quaking bog | Babel Free

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A type of floating bog in which vegetation forms a floating mat on the surface of water or above very wet peat, which moves (or quakes) when walked upon.

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“The turf hardens by degrees , but is still stringy when broken, and at length becomes the red turf employed as fuel. The production of the quaking bogs is as follows : […]”

“[…] the naturalists attribute this mysterious movement to the isostatic dynamics of the quaking bog itself: their very footfall has created a rippling dynamic through the liquidity of the peat, which disturbed the distant vegetation. Yet even for these scientists, as Meredith (2002: 319) notes, this sense of an animate[…]”

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